Les Vampires /

A seven-hour silent crime serial in 10 episodes. Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Edge books.
Corporate Authors: Image Entertainment (Firm), Water Bearer Films (Firm), Gaumont (Firm)
Other Authors: Feuillade, Louis, 1873-1925, Zagury, Fabrice
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:Silent film with music score and English intertitles.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Water Bearer Films ; [2000]
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Description
Summary:A seven-hour silent crime serial in 10 episodes. Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.
Item Description:Originally produced as French silent black-and-white motion picture by the Gaumont Co., Ltd. in Paris and released as a motion picture in 1916.
Double-sided disc.
Special features: Digital stereo orchestral score -- Originally mastered to the correct running speed -- Color tinted in authentic period style -- Inserted essay: The public is my master : Louis Feuillade and Les Vampires / by Fabrice Zagury -- For the children (1916): 3 min. comedy sketch by the cast and crew of Les Vampires to raise funds for the French war orphans, directed by Louis Feuillade -- Bout-de-Zan and the shirker (1916): 8-min. comedy that features the child actor, Bout-de-Zan, from episode 8 of Les Vampires and is directed by Louis Feuillade.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (399 min.) : sound, tinted & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format:DVD; Dolby digital stereo.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Writer/director, Louis Feuillade ; produced for video by David Shepard ; orchestral score compiled and directed by Robert Israel.